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The occupation of the University of Amsterdam's Senate House and the breadth and depth of the grassroots movement for a New University have exposed the problems of Dutch higher education in an impressive manner. Increasing student/staff ratios, chronic underfunding, creeping micromanagement of research and teaching, and a lack of democratic management: all of these aspect turn turn the university into a bureaucratic version of Aldi, according to the grassroots movement.Yesterday, the university has ended the occupation by police force, thus once again underlining its own authoritarianism.

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